PITTS Aircraft Manuals PDF

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The Pitts Special is an integral part of American aviation history.

It prototypes are exhibited in such American museums as the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum (Washington, DC), Experimental Aviation Association Museum (Oshkosh, Wisconsin).

It is also in the British Museum (London) and in many other aviation museums in the world.

Designer Curtiss Pitts, who designed the original aeroacrobatic biplane, hardly expected his creation to last over five decades and would be considered by the general public to be an exceptional aircraft for aerobatic shows and demonstration flights.

The prototype Pitts Special S1 made its first flight in September 1944. The aircraft was a structure of metal pipes covered with linen sheathing over wooden spars.

Early models were powered by four-cylinder Continentals or Lycoming engines, ranging from 90 to 125 hp. Later models were equipped with higher power engines and were of the usual all-metal construction.

Currently, the aircraft is produced as a single-seater in the S1 series and a two-seater in the S2 series, except for the S-2S model.